MEMO | April 30, 2019 The Israeli government will subsidise hotels in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, as part of a plan to attract more tourists to the area. According to an article in Arutz Sheva, citing a report by Israel Hayom, Israel’s Tourism Ministry “will aid entrepreneurs who want to invest in […]
MEMO | April 29, 2019 Israeli occupation authorities allowed settlers to celebrate Passover at the site of the former Amona outpost in the northern West Bank, despite the fact that the location is a closed military zone. According to Haaretz, the site “became a recreation spot for Jewish settlers during the Passover holiday”, even though […]
Palestine Information Center – April 28, 2019 GAZA – The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced the participation of Israel in the 2020 World Expo in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai, describing it as a serious development. In Twitter remarks, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri urged UAE to backtrack on its decision to invite […]
Press TV – April 18, 2019 Russia says the legitimate Syrian government should immediately take control over the country’s northeastern region, including the East Euphrates River, which is held by US-backed Kurdish militants. “There is a need to resolve the issue concerning the country’s northeast and the left bank of the Euphrates River in order […]
Ma’an – April 16, 2019 TUBAS – The Israeli authorities confiscated 51,000 dunams and isolated five villages in the Jordan Valley area in the northern occupied West Bank, an official in charge of Jordan Valley’s Israeli settlements file at the Palestinian Authority (PA) reported. Mutaz Bisharat told the Voice of Palestine radio station that the […]
Press TV – April 15, 2019 An Israeli delegation of merchants and officials has canceled its planned participation in a business conference in Bahrain amid growing national outcry over the Persian Gulf kingdom’s warming ties with the Tel Aviv regime following years of clandestine contacts. A spokeswoman for Israel’s Economy Ministry said a planned visit […]
Ma’an – April 13, 2019 BETHLEHEM – The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) sent an urgent letter to the European Union’s European Commission regarding their participation in funding EuroAsia Interconnector, a power transmission project aiming to build the infrastructure necessary to link energy sources between Israel, Cyprus, and Greece. The project, expected to be implemented […]
By Eresh Omar Jamal | The Duran | April 13, 2019 Three weeks into the invasion of Iraq, coalition forces led by the US army entered Baghdad and formally occupied it on April 9, 2003. The city’s infrastructure was seriously damaged. The Al-Yarmouk Hospital in the south received about 100 new patients every hour at […]
Sputnik – 11.04.2019 MOSCOW – More than 450 refugees have left the Rukban camp in Syria through the humanitarian corridor in the past 24 hours, Maj. Gen. Viktor Kupchishin, head of the Russian centre for Syrian reconciliation, said Thursday. “A total of 459 refugees left the Rukban camp through provided humanitarian corridor in the past […]
By Jeremy Salt | Palestine Chronicle | April 11, 2019 Airbnb has reversed its decision to ban some 200 listings by Zionist settlers in the West Bank while allowing them to continue in occupied east Jerusalem and the occupied and illegally annexed Golan Heights. The decision against the listing of West Bank settlements was taken […]
